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'Twitter Feminists' to Katie Roiphe: This Essay is Not Very Good

'Twitter Feminists' to Katie Roiphe: This Essay is Not Very Good

Also "staggeringly boring," "dishonest," and "misdirected"

By Emily Temple | February 5, 2018

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce's Ulysses

Or: the Ballad of Leatherbags Reynolds

By Emily Temple | February 2, 2018

<em>Ulysses</em>: Good or Bad?

Ulysses: Good or Bad?

21 Famous Writers and One Famous Psychoanalyst Weigh In

By Emily Temple | February 2, 2018

Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Tim Wirkus on the Tension Between What is Anticipated and What is Delivered

By Tim Wirkus | January 31, 2018

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

How Daniel Boone and Last of the Mohicans Built a Colonialist Origin Story

By Roxanne Oritz-Dunbar | January 26, 2018

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Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

Without a Formal Education, She Produced Gothic Masterworks

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Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix

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J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

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